Metro Approves Transit Policing Contract Extension, While Setting Up Some Shift to Alternatives
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The one year contract extension combines with other Metro approvals to queue up a planned partial shift of resources away from armed law enforcement to a community safety approach
Seven-City East SGV Project Recommended for $15 million for Bike/Ped, Bus, and First-Last Mile Measure M Funding
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The East San Gabriel Valley Sustainable Multimodal Improvement Project would span Azusa, Claremont, Covina, Glendora, La Verne, Pomona, San Dimas
San Francisco Vows to End Parking at Transit Stops
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The San Francisco Board of Supervisors resolved unanimously this week to stop allowing motorists to park in bus stops
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Bakersfield GET bus embarks on study to improve transit (23ABC)
- AC Transit adds a bit more bus service as riders return (SFBay)
- Yup, there definitely are more driverless cars in San Francisco (KQED)
- BART adds 850 parking spaces at suburban Antioch station (Local News)
- Wayfinding – not using cell phones – is super important, but needs to be done correctly (Metropolis)
- All of the cities on list of California’s “worst commutes” are car-dependent exurbs (KPVI)
- Things to celebrate in infrastructure bill (Transportation For America)
- Coalition sues EPA over air quality in Central Valley (Capital and Main)
- For true “relief” from high gas prices, take the profit from oil companies and give it away (The Hill)
- California has no water (SF Chronicle)
- People believe shelter is a basic human right, but don’t necessarily want to pay for it (LA Times)
- An idea for trading nutrients between regions to tackle pollution and food insecurity (Anthropocene)
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San Diego Forward Offers a Vision of What a Transportation System Could Be
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SANDAG's board will decide on December 10 whether they agree with that vision
Metro Leaders Make False Claims at North County 5 Freeway Widening Groundbreaking
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Does anyone really believe that this freeway expansion will really clean the air? Advance equity? Is suburban highway widening any kind of equity model for other projects in the region and the state?
Talking Headways Podcast: Optimism on Infrastructure
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This week we’re joined by Linda Samuels, associate professor of urban design at Washington University in St. Louis, to talk about her book "Infrastructural Optimism." We chat about how growth for growth’s sake is not the answer, learn from postmodernist urbanism, and why systems should be more connected.
East Bay Cities Sneak in Beg Buttons
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Speeding up buses defeats the purpose if it also slows down bus riders/pedestrians
STUDY: Better Bike Policy Could Prevent 15K U.S. Deaths Every Year — And Not Just in Crashes
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If U.S. cities take aggressive but realistic action to replace car trips with bike trips by 2050, they could prevent more than 15,000 premature deaths every year, a new study finds — and not just in traffic crashes.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- CA high-speed rail opponents get the final boot from court (LA Times)
- A history of red light enforcement in Oakland (Oaklandside)
- Former Assembly Transportation chair Jim Frazier to resign (SF Chronicle, Mercury News)
- Pushing for transit justice (SmartCitiesDive)
- Cruise self-driving taxi promotional videos show disregard for safe loading (Reuters)
- This morning: Santa Cruz County invites public input on investing transportation funds (Patch)
- Redwood City Caltrain stop may finally get the right kind of development (SF Chronicle)
- SPUR: Expand parklet and safe streets programs, don’t abandon them (SF Chronicle)
- Transit workers are in high demand nationwide (NY Times)
- More on San Francisco’s lessons on designing safer left turns (Forbes)
- Using urban forestry to battle climate inequities (Fast Company)
- Google Street View cars, driving around endlessly, have also mapped pollution (SF Chronicle)
- Federal report on oil drilling offers crickets on climate change – but does point out that U.S. oil reserves are being sold for way too cheap (NY Times)
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More Progress on the New Sixth Street Viaduct
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Nearly all of the 20 iconic arches now appear complete